Editor

Geoffrey Sykes, Australia

Associate Editors

Susan Petrilli, University of Bari, Italy

Paul Ryder, University of New South Wales

Editorial Team

Myrdene Anderson, Purdue University, USA

Nicoleta Blanariu, University “Vasile Alecsandri”, Romania

Paul Boussiac, University of Toronto, Canada

Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati, Ryerson University, Canada

Verónica Devalle, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Marina Grishakova, University of Tartu, Estonia

Janys Hayes, University of Wollongong, Australia

Shaeda Isani, University of Grenoble, France

David Jean-Michel, Steiner Education, Victoria, Australia

Massimo Leone, University of Torino, Italy

Asun LópezVarela, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,

Spain

David Marshall, Deakin University, Australia

Demelza Martin, University of New South Wales,  Australia

Inna Merkoulova, University for the Humanities, Moscow Russia

Geoffrey Owens, Wright State University, Dayton USA

Augusto Ponzio, University of Bari, Bari

Elena Semenova, Institute of Art Education and Cultural Studies of the RAE (Moscow, Russia)

Christina Spiesel, Yale University, USA

 

Editorial Associate

Kristina Ilisevic, University of New South Wales

 

Editors

Geoffrey Sykes (Editor) has lectured extensively in  communication, semiotic, media and cultural studies, at the University of Wollongong, University of Western Sydney, Notre Dame University Sydney and most recently, the University of New South Wales. He has given numerous guest lectures and conference presentations. His doctorate on the seminal semiotic figure Charles Peirce received strong international reports. He has had over thirty papers and book chapters published, including refereed journals such as Semiotic Review of Books, Canadian Journal of Communication, Media International Australia, American Journal of Semiotics, and the Journal of Philosophy of Education. He has successful experience as a filmmaker, with broadcast credits screened nationally by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as on SBS television, Arts NZ and Foxtel. As a theatre writer and producer he has over 35 professional theatre credits. Along with other interests, he brings arts and media perspectives into the journal.

Paul Ryder (Associate Editor) holds a Ph.D. in Literature, Media, and Communication from Massey University, New Zealand. Apart from semiotics in the context of literature and film, Paul’s interests include the application of interdisciplinary theories and models to a broad range of commercial, organisational, and political challenges. Formerly founder and director of a New Zealand-based school for the academically gifted, he is currently director of Ryder Consulting Services (Sydney), has been a senior doctoral studies supervisor at the University of Western Sydney, and now lectures at the University of New South Wales). He has attuned knowledge of communication studies, including interpersonal and non-verbal dimensions. He has experiences in educational business enterprise and special needs education that are particularly helpful for this project. He is a member of the Athens Institute of Higher Education and Research (ATINER). He has a keen knowledge of business finances and project practices.

Susan Petrilli (Associate Editor) is Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro,” Italy. She is 7th Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America, Fellow of the International Communicology Institute (ICI), Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide, South Australia, and vice-President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. She is invited member of the scientific committee of several  international journals. . In addition to various book series in Italy, she co-directs with Augusto Ponzio the Peter Lang series, “Reflections on Signs and Language”. She has delivered lectures as visiting professor across the globe, including in Australia, China, Brazil, USA, Canada, South Africa, and various countries in Europe.

Her book titles include: The Self as a Sign, the World and the Other (Transaction, 2013); Em outro lugar e de outro modo (Pedro&João, 2013); Sign Studies and Semioethics. Communication, Translation and Values (Mouton De Gruyter, 2014); Riflessioni sulla teoria del linguaggio e dei segni (Mimesis, 2014); Victoria Welby and the Science of Signs (Transaction, 2015); Nella vita dei segni (Mimesis, 2015); (in collab. with A. Ponzio) Semioetica e comunicazione globale (Mimesis, 2014) and Lineamenti di semiotica e di filosofia del linguaggio (Guerra, 2016); The Global World and Its Manifold Faces. Otherness as the Basis of Communication (2016); Digressioni nella storia. Dal tempo del sogno al tempo della globalizzazione (2017); Challenges to Living Together. Transculturalism, Migration, Exploitation. For a Semioethics of Human Relations (2017); and for the book series Athanor: Fedi, credenze e fanatismo (Faiths, Beliefs and Fanaticism, ed. 2016), Pace, pacificazione, pacifismo e i loro linguaggi (Peace, pacification, pacifism and their languages, ed. 2017), and L’immagine nella parola, nella musica e nella pittura (The image in the word, in music and in painting, ed. 2018). Her most recent books are Signs, Language and Listening. Semioethic Perspectives (2019) and Segni, linguaggi e parole. Comunicazione e interpretazione come traduzione (2019).

In addition to publishing in English and Italian her writings are available in Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Serb, Greek, Chinese